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King tried to trademark "Candy," Apple tried to trademark "app store" and now Google is trying to trademark "Glass." The tech giant wants the trademark, of course, for its Google Glass eyewear. It already has the trademark for "Google Glass," but is ...

The Apple-Samsung patent war got real Friday. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has ordered a ban on the import and sale of certain Samsung smartphones. The ITC found that Samsung was infringed on two of Apple's patents. Although this is ...

Google took a stand of sorts against patent-lawsuit theater Thursday with its new Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge. As explained by Google's Duane Valz, under the OPN Pledge, Google promises "not to sue any user, distributor or developer of ope...

A Wisconsin judge has dismissed a lawsuit that Apple filed against Motorola Mobility, now owned by Google. The judge dismissed the suit, first filed in March 2011, with prejudice only a few hours before the trial was set to begin. Apple had been seek...

Apple can continue selling mobile devices while the company remains mired by lawsuits with its main competitor Samsung, a Seoul court ruled Thursday. An August ruling found both companies infringing on each other's patents and a stay was placed on Ap...

Samsung is requesting the billion-dollar patent case it lost against Apple in August be thrown out because the jury foreman didn't fully disclose his litigious past. Jury foreman Velvin Hogan was sued by his former employer, Seagate, and had once fil...

Oracle's legal woes aren't over yet. On Tuesday a federal judge ordered the company to reimburse Google $1,130,350 in legal costs stemming from the high-stakes copyright battle earlier this year. Google originally wanted Oracle to fork over more than...

Shares of Samsung Electronics fell 7.5% Monday, decreasing the company's market value by more than $12 billion. A San Jose, Calif. court judge ruled Friday that the South Korean tech manufacturer owed Apple $1.05 billion in damages on several inciden...

Although Samsung lost big time in its landmark patent-infringement case with Apple on Friday, there was at least one bit of good news in the verdict. The jury found the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet wasn't infringing on Apple's design patents, which...

Apple CEO Tim Cook is certainly raising a glass tonight now that his company has walloped Samsung in its patent-infringement case to the tune of $1.049 billion. But there's another CEO who must be feeling pretty good, too: Steve Ballmer. Yes, the jur...

The jury has returned with its decision in the Samsung-Apple dispute and the results are overwhelmingly in Apple's favor. The jury awarded Apple $1,049,343,540.00 in damages. There is a lot to go over in the verdict form, which we've embedded below. ...

The jury has reached a verdict in the Apple vs. Samsung patent trial taking pace in a San Jose, Calif. court. Apple succeeded in the majority of its claims against Samsung, with the jury awarding Apple more than $1 billion in damages and potentially ...

Although the trial in a San Jose, Calif. courtroom has been garnering the lion's share of attention lately in the ongoing patent war between Apple and Samsung, the two companies have ongoing litigation worldwide. One of those skirmishes, in South Kor...

Everyone knows the story of the Wright brothers and their historic flight in December 1903. What you may not know is that the Orville and Wilbur Wright submitted a patent for their invention months earlier, which was eventually granted in 1906. Then ...

Kodak has lost its patent case against Apple and RIM over technology for previewing digital images. The International Trade Commission (ITC) said it agreed with a judge's ruling that stated neither Apple nor RIM violated Kodak's patent for digital im...

Today a UK judged ordered that Apple must issue a notice stating that Samsung did not copy its design for the iPad. Apple's statement must be published on its UK website for six months and be distributed throughout several British magazines and newsp...

A federal jury has issued a partial verdict in the Oracle/Google lawsuit. Although the jury found that Google infringed on Oracle's Java tools, it deadlocked around the question of whether Google proved that its use of Java constituted "fair use." Or...

An unusual technology entered the patent lawsuit theater on Monday when Honeywell International announced it was suing Nest Labs: Thermostat tech. Now Nest says it plans to fight back. Honeywell, a diversified technology and manufacturing company, is...

Apple is being sued over a fast boot feature in Mac OS X, the latest in a series of patent lawsuits involving the tech giant. Patently Apple uncovered the lawsuit, which was filed by Florida-based Operating Systems Solutions, LLC. The suit claims tha...

Samsung has agreed to hold off bringing the Galaxy Tab 10.1 to Australia until it resolves its patent lawsuit with Apple, Inc. Apple and Samsung are battling it out in court in several jurisdictions, including the U.S., South Korea and now, Australia...

Amazon isn't the only company getting visits from Apple's lawyers over the use of the phrase "App Store." The company is also after the third-party app market GetJar. GetJar, which bills itself as "the world's largest free app store" and distributes ...

Apple has amended and expanded its intellectual property right complaint against Samsung to include more products and more patents. In April, Apple filed suit against the Korean giant, alleging that products like the Galaxy S series of smartphones an...

In this special edition of Patent Lawsuit Theater, Samsung is responding to Apple's patent infringement claims regarding the Galaxy Tab and Galaxy S by filing a countersuit of its own. Samsung said it filed a suit April 21 in the Seoul Central Distri...

The U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled against Kodak in its case against Apple and Research in Motion (RIM). In January 2010, the imaging and photography giant filed a complaint with the U.S. ITC against Apple and RIM, alleging that the ph...

Welcome to the latest episode of Patent Lawsuit Theater! In this edition, we find Microsoft suing former partner Motorola over, what else, patent infringement in the area of smartphones. Microsoft filed an action with the International Trade Commissi...

Remember how Apple sued HTC over patent infringements two months ago? Today HTC is fighting back by filing its own complaint with the International Trade Commission (ITC). In addition, HTC is seeking a ban on the importation and sale of iPhones, iPad...

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